enable GCC large address aware linker flag (Windows only) #2167
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Automatic sanity-testing: PASSED, see http://jenkins.bluematt.me/pull-tester/a35a8e3219e933265b0e34f7c72e08ed33ac0f63 for binaries and test log. |
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From what I read, this simply tells the OS that the application is prepared to deal with a >2GB address range. Not all Windows OSs/platforms support it, but enabling this flag should be a no-op for those. If someone can verify binaries built with this still work on a 32-bit XP, I'm fine with merging this. |
- this flag allows bitcoin-qt.exe / bitcoind.exe (32-bit application) to handle addresses larger than 2GB (up to 3GB on x86 Windows and up to 4GB on x64 Windows)
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Automatic sanity-testing: PASSED, see http://jenkins.bluematt.me/pull-tester/1f0ce2dd68313094af7cf6647bdf5936bee8352c for binaries and test log. |
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@sipa I'm going to try the pulltester binary with WinXP tomorrow :). |
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@sipa Did an IBD with bitcoin-qt.exe, tried a wallet encryption and there were no errros, the client started and closed just fine as expected. Btw. it seems @BitcoinPullTester is using an older OpenSSL version then we do with Gitian. |
enable GCC large address aware linker flag (Windows only)
enable GCC large address aware linker flag (Windows only)
handle addresses larger than 2GB (up to 3GB on x86 Windows and up to
4GB on x64 Windows)